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  1. Classification and Prediction of Brain Disorders Using Functional Connectivity: Promising but Challenging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-08-06 Digital health tools

    Brain functional imaging data, especially functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, have been employed to reflect functional integration of the brain.

  2. Device-Embedded Cameras for Eye Tracking-Based Cognitive Assessment: Validation With Paper-Pencil and Computerized Cognitive Composites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2018-07-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Modest relationships were seen between mean VPC novelty preference and the PACC (r=.39, P=.007) and NIHTB-CB (r=.35, P=.03) composite scores, and additional individual neurocognitive task scores including letter fluency (r=.33, P=.02), category fluency (r=.36, P=.01), and Trail Making Test A (-.40, P=.006).

  3. Brain MRI analysis for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using an ensemble system of deep convolutional neural networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain informatics 2018-05-31 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease is an incurable, progressive neurological brain disorder.

  4. The cingulum bundle: Anatomy, function, and dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-05-16 Risk factors

    The cingulum bundle is a prominent white matter tract that interconnects frontal, parietal, and medial temporal sites, while also linking subcortical nuclei to the cingulate gyrus.

  5. Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Eight-Layer Convolutional Neural Network with Leaky Rectified Linear Unit and Max Pooling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of medical systems 2018-03-26 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disease.

  6. Impact of Aging on the Auditory System and Related Cognitive Functions: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-03-05 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), presbycusis, is a chronic health condition that affects approximately one-third of the world's population.

  7. Heterogeneous patterns of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-01-31 Digital health tools

    There is increasing evidence showing that brain atrophy varies between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), suggesting that different anatomical patterns might exist within the same disorder.

  8. Version 3 of the Alzheimer Disease Centers' Neuropsychological Test Battery in the Uniform Data Set (UDS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2018-01-01 Risk factors

    The UDSNB 3.0 neuropsychological battery provides a valuable non proprietary resource for conducting research on cognitive aging and dementia.

  9. Slow wave sleep disruption increases cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    See Mander et al. (doi:10.1093/awx174) for a scientific commentary on this article.

  10. Sleep Disturbance, Cognitive Decline, and Dementia: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Seminars in Neurology 2017-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Approximately half of older people report sleep disturbances, which are associated with various health conditions, including neurodegenerative disease and dementia.

  11. The anatomy of apathy: A neurocognitive framework for amotivated behaviour

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2017-07-08 Clinical safety

    Apathy is a debilitating syndrome associated with many neurological disorders, including several common neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, and focal lesion syndromes such as stroke.

  12. HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorder: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2017-05-31 Digital health tools

    The modern antiretroviral treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection has considerably lowered the incidence of opportunistic infections.

  13. Predicting conversion from MCI to AD using resting-state fMRI, graph theoretical approach and SVM

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience methods 2017-03-09 Digital health tools

    Using subset of optimal features in SVM, we classified MCI-C from MCI-NC with an accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 91.4%, 83.24%, 90.1%, and 0.95, respectively.

  14. Deep ensemble learning of sparse regression models for brain disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2017-01-24 Digital health tools

    Recent studies on brain imaging analysis witnessed the core roles of machine learning techniques in computer-assisted intervention for brain disease diagnosis.

  15. The concurrent validity and reliability of the Leg Motion system for measuring ankle dorsiflexion range of motion in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PeerJ 2017-01-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dorsiflexion ROM limitation is associated with ankle injuries, foot pain, lower limb disorders, loss of balance, gait control disorders and fall risk in older adults.

  16. Classification of patients with MCI and AD from healthy controls using directed graph measures of resting-state fMRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2016-06-23 Digital health tools

    Brain network alterations in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been the subject of much investigation, but the biological mechanisms underlying these alterations remain poorly understood.

  17. Atrophy of presubiculum and subiculum is the earliest hippocampal anatomical marker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-03-29 Brain scans and imaging

    The volumes of the presubiculum and subiculum presented the most remarkable reduction in the patient's groups.

  18. Relying on procedural memory to enhance independence in daily living activities: Smartphone use in a case of semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychological rehabilitation 2015-01-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Relying on procedural memory is a promising approach for interventions that address the cognitive difficulties found in semantic dementia.

  19. Cardiovascular risk factors and frontotemporal dementia: a case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2014-06-21 Risk factors

    Cardiovascular risk factors (CRF) were widely described as related to dementia.

  20. Improved memory function two years after bariatric surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2013-10-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings suggest that cognitive benefits of bariatric surgery may extend to 24-months postoperatively.

  21. Elderly-onset essential tremor and mild cognitive impairment: a population-based study (NEDICES)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Risk factors

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is often considered to be a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia.

  22. A new Brief computerized cognitive screening battery (CompCogs) for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2008 Cognitive tests and assessment

    CompCogs included the Face test (correct response) and Word and Forms with Short term memory tests (reaction time).

  23. Hippocampal synaptic loss in early Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-11-09 Genetics

    One of the major neuropathological findings in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a loss of synaptic contacts in both the neocortex and hippocampus.

  24. Diagnosis and management of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus: a prospective study in 151 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 2005-06-01 Digital health tools

    Object The diagnosis and management of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) remains controversial, particularly in selecting patients for shunt insertion.

  25. Gait slowing as a predictor of incident dementia: 6-year longitudinal data from the Sydney Older Persons Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2004-12-08 Digital health tools

    Current definitions for the preclinical phase of dementia focus predominantly on cognitive measures, with particular emphasis on memory and the prediction of Alzheimer's disease.

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